Topic: [Solved] ffmpeg tries to pull libav - but they're mutually..
Post: post 7331182
Reason: This is a confused response towards my support (see my first post in the thread) and voluntary explanation and teaching (any subsequent post) of decisions taken by other Gentoo Developers; this post (and some others in the thread) confuses me for said Gentoo Developers, therefore pointing at me for no good reason. I don't see this topic going anywhere useful, the necessary explanation has been done; feel free to intervene as these unwanted / off-topic arguments are not likely to yield anything constructive. Please leave the actual content intact; such that I can use this to request proper documentation and / or a news item, by the time the version in question gets unmasked and released to the masses.

Regardless of the merits, moving to its own thread as the reporting thread is for reporting, not protracted discussion. — JRG

Edit: Removed any reference to the user to avoid misinterpretation, which this is not about; it is about the thread.

Last edited by TomWij on Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:18 pm; edited 3 times in total

Obviously there are Gentoo maintainers who are at the same time libav developers. The situation for Debian is the same or worse. Now Gentoo users got suspicious and more and more angry about this helter skelter.

The newly elected Gentoo board has to issue a new policy to not allow sided maintainers decide on virtual packages._________________fun2gen2

I didn't want to object you. But I think this issue goes deeper. Why would otherwise be so many good people involved? By the way: Why can't you just say: I feel unrespectfully treated. I would like to answer some facts, but this would go flamewar.

You did not object me, don't worry. I'm in the nature of responding to full posts, as a matter of respect and having showed I read it in its entirety. But there is point, like now, where people just need to stop talking...

ulenrich wrote:

Do you realy think such long pamphlets of navar are read by any one else?

This is the internet, an undefined amount of people will read every word you say; on the other hand, there is so much data that it may barely get read; on yet another hand, we have search engines so people will find it.

Imaging:
If a google searching guy finds a pamphlet like this as a last word he will get curious. If he is realy interested in the issue he fortunately will find your post of another thread later based on facts. I urge you: Don't mind letting trolls have the last word of a thread. It doesn't matter in the long run!
Instead write more of your good posts in good threads!_________________fun2gen2

Trite, tiresome and childish both of you. Everyone has different definitions of trolls nowadays, particularly here with anyone who disagrees with some. Here you choose to goad, because appearently you respecting the purpose of this thread doesn't matter to you versus your real intentions. Perhaps you feel with your pseudo authority that the moderators are in your back pocket.

Noting some examples (thankfully few but enough to be disconcerting) I've seen in the recent past and actions taken by a few in control here, that may just be the case. I fail to discern why I should continue to care. And hey, if that's your ideal for these forums, my mistake.

That's not a reason as per the Gentoo CoC, nor did I ever use or intent it as such; I do not see what you refer to.

Navar wrote:

Here you choose to goad, because appearently you respecting the purpose of this thread doesn't matter to you versus your real intentions. Perhaps you feel with your pseudo authority that the moderators are in your back pocket.

I post here merely to make that discussion stop, please stop making further assumptions.

Navar wrote:

Noting some examples (thankfully few but enough to be disconcerting) I've seen in the recent past and actions taken by a few in control here, that may just be the case.

Moderators do what is good for the forum and for Gentoo as a whole; they won't side for a particular group, just like I won't side for a particular piece of software in that thread.

Navar wrote:

I fail to discern why I should continue to care.

If it matters, there may be a reason for that.

Navar wrote:

And hey, if that's your ideal for these forums, my mistake.

How many more times are you going to spell me the words? Please stop doing that.

Navar wrote:

Posts don't learn, but sometimes people do.

They do, but some people don't learn from them; in this case, we don't learn from each others posts.

As essentialy a continuation of the originally reported thread's argument, this thread also is too long, too off topic, and too argumentative to be allowed to be bumped to the top of the search results by continuation. So, locked to allow the slow process of necrotization to continue. − JRG